And Target did a mean woke by selling #Pride merch, which makes them #groomers. So by fighting swipe fees, Congress is giving woke groomers a government bailout!
It's literally that stupid. It's being pushed by a dark money group based in Kansas, which is targeting Senator Marshalls constituents with mailers that warns voters they'll "lose their credit card points" because he's thrown his lot in with "liberal politicians":
https://punchbowl.news/caf-marshall-mailer-kansas/
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The fliers also warn that competition could result in "your financial data could be processed by partners of the Chinese Communist Party" (the bill bans foreign companies from routing transactions, and bans #ChinaUnionPay by name).
The fliers are anonymous. The only ghoul shameless enough to put his name on the campaign is #GroverNordquist, whose #AmericansForTaxReform tells its Christmas-voting-turkeys to "side with consumers, not woke retailers."
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The dark money org pushing this line have placed op-eds in newspapers across red states, comparing transaction routing competition to your kids' data being snaffled up by Tiktok:
This nonsense was peddled by #LeagueOfSoutheasternCreditUnions president #SamanthaBeeler, whose org has spent $20,000 fighting the #CCCA, claiming that a "cheaper" system would be "less secure":
https://disclosurespreview.house.gov/ld/ldxmlrelease/2023/Q2/301493985.xml
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